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Albuminous

adjective
1.
Relating to or containing or resembling albumin.





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"Albuminous" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the digestive tract at an early period, and the necessary entrance therein, according to the laws of hydrostatics, of the albuminous amniotic fluid. ...
— Simon Magus • George Robert Stow Mead
... he is wise he will realise that the food ought to contain a proper quantity of both proteids and amygdaloids, and, while avoiding a nitrogenous breakfast, should see to it that he obtains sufficient of what is albuminous and exogamous to prevent his breakfast from becoming monotonous. Careful thought must therefore be ...
— Further Foolishness • Stephen Leacock
... eye-holes are situated; when this is completed, the crab commences hammering with its heavy claws on one of the eye-holes till an opening is made. Then turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers it extracts the white albuminous substance. I think this is as curious a case of instinct as ever I heard of, and likewise of adaptation in structure between two objects apparently so remote from each other in the scheme of nature as a crab ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Albuminous" :   albumin


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